But come April 9, Chad VanGaalen will be known in London as the lead attraction for the 2016 Little Grickle launch party at the London Children’s Museum.

Details of the launch gig were announced by Grickle Grass fest organizers Monday on social media.

Growing up, Vangaalen looked up to bands like Sonic Youth and Pavement but particularly admired artists that “made mistakes and sounded more human.”

Praising VanGaalen’s “whimsical, surreal tunes,” a Postmedia News critic – who also called him a freak rocker – listed some VanGaalen lyrics.

Case in point, said the critic, is a song from his 2014 album Shrink Dust. It is a “sweet little ditty that goes, ‘My fingers have shrivelled and dropped to the dirt/And two giant talons have grown where they were/I’m starting to think I will never return/To my previous form/Which I can’t recall/But I’m not hungry at all.’ ”

Also on the bill are Silkken, So Young, Boyhood and Un Blonde.

“We’re trying something new this year,” Grickle Grass fest organizers said Monday on Facebook. “We thought, ‘Let’s have a launch party at the Children’s Museum.’ So, we are. And we’re pretty excited about it.”

The 2016 editions of the Grickle Grass fest goes May 30 with details TBA.

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